<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">==================================================<br>Full Day Workshop ProHealth’12 / KR4HC’12<br>================================================================================<br>
5th International Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare<br>&<br>4th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care <br>================================================================================ <br>
<br>Tallinn, Estonia – September 3rd, 2012<br><br>In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM12)<br><br>Workshop Web site: <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/events/prohealth_KR4HC_2012" target="_blank">http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/events/prohealth_KR4HC_2012</a><br>
<br>================================================================================<br><br>WORKSHOP GOALS<br>--------------<br><br>Healthcare organizations are facing the challenge of delivering high quality services to their patients at affordable <br>
<br>costs. These challenges become more prominent with the growth in the aging population with chronic diseases and the rise of <br><br>healthcare costs. High degree of specialization of medical disciplines, huge amounts of medical knowledge and patient data <br>
<br>to be consulted in order to provide evidence-based recommendations, and the need for personalized healthcare are <br><br>prevalent trends in this information-intensive domain. The emerging situation necessitates computer-based support of <br>
<br>healthcare process & knowledge management as well as clinical decision-making.<br><br>This workshop brings together researchers from two communities who have been addressing these challenges from two different <br>
<br>perspectives. The knowledge-representation for healthcare community, which is part of the larger medical informatics <br><br>community, has been focusing on knowledge representation and reasoning to support knowledge management and clinical <br>
<br>decision-making. This community has been developing efficient representations, technologies, and tools for integrating all <br><br>the important elements that health care providers work with: Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and healthcare information <br>
<br>systems, clinical practice guidelines, and standardized medical vocabularies. The process-oriented information systems in <br><br>healthcare community, which is part of the larger business process management (BPM) community, has been studying ways to <br>
<br>adopt BPM technology in order to provide effective solutions for healthcare process management. BPM technology has been <br><br>successfully used in other sectors for establishing process-aware enterprise information systems (vs. collections of stand<br>
<br>-alone systems for different departments in the organization). Adopting BPM technology in the healthcare sector is starting <br><br>to address some of the unique characteristics of healthcare processes, including their high degree of flexibility, the <br>
<br>integration with EMRs and shared semantics of healthcare domain concepts, and the need for tight cooperation and <br><br>communication among medical care teams.<br><br>This joint workshop brings together two approaches: healthcare process support, as addressed in previous ProHealth <br>
<br>workshops, and healthcare knowledge representation as dealt with in previous KR4HC workshops. The workshop shall elaborate <br><br>both the potential and the limitations of the two approaches for supporting healthcare process & healthcare knowledge <br>
<br>management as well as clinical decision-making. It shall further provide a forum wherein challenges, paradigms, and tools <br><br>for optimized knowledge-based clinical process support can be debated. We want to bring together researchers and <br>
<br>practitioners from these different, yet similar fields to improve the understanding of domain specific requirements, <br><br>methods and theories, tools and techniques, and the gaps between IT support and healthcare processes yet to be closed. This <br>
<br>forum also provides an opportunity to explore how the approaches from the two communities could be better integrated.<br><br>History of the Two Workshops<br><br>Providing computer-based support in healthcare is a topic that has been picking up speed for more than two decades. We are <br>
<br>witnessing a plethora of different workshops devoted to various topics involving computer applications for healthcare. Our <br><br>goal has been to try to join forces with other communities in order to learn from each other, advance science, and create a <br>
<br>stronger and larger community. The history of the two workshops, KR4HC and ProHealth demonstrates the efforts we have done <br><br>in that direction so far, reaching this year, a joint workshop between communities who have been actively holding such <br>
<br>workshops since the year 2000.<br><br>The first KR4HC workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th Artificial Intelligence in Medicine conference (AIME'09), <br><br>brought together members of two existing communities: the clinical guidelines and protocols community, who held a line of <br>
<br>four workshops (European Workshop on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CPG'2000, CPG'2004); AI Techniques in Health <br><br>Care: Evidence-based Guidelines and Protocols 2006; Computer-based Clinical Guidelines and Protocols 2008) and a related <br>
<br>community who held a series of three workshops / special tracks devoted to the formalization, organization, and deployment <br><br>of procedural knowledge in healthcare (CBMS’07 Special Track on Machine Learning and Management of Health Care Procedural <br>
<br>Knowledge 2007; From Medical Knowledge to Global Health Care 2007; Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures 2008). <br><br>Since then, two more KR4HC workshops have been held, in conjunction with the ECAI’10 and the AIME’11 conferences.<br>
<br>The first ProHealth workshop took place in the context of the 5th Int’l Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) in <br><br>2007. The next three ProHealth Workshops were also held in conjunction with BPM conferences (BPM'08, BPM’09, and BPM’11). <br>
<br>The aim of ProHealth has been to bring together researchers from the BPM and the Medical Informatics communities. As the <br><br>workshop was associated with the BPM conference that had never been attended by researchers from the Medical Informatics <br>
<br>community, we had included Medical Informatics researchers as keynote speakers of the workshop, members of the program <br><br>committee, and to our delight, saw a number of researchers from the Medical Informatics community actively participating in <br>
<br>ProHealth workshops. Following the keynote talk given by Manfred Reichert from the BPM community at the Artificial <br><br>Intelligence in Medicine 2011 (AIME’11) conference, where KR4HC was held, the organizers of ProHealth and KR4HC workshops <br>
<br>have shown their interest to hold their workshops in conjunction as part of the BPM'12 conference, which marks a landmark <br><br>in the collaboration between the two communities. We are continuing the efforts that started three years ago by members of <br>
<br>the Software Engineering in Health Care (SEHC) community to strengthen the collaboration between the ProHealth and SEHC <br><br>communities.<br><br><br>WORKSHOP THEME<br>--------------<br><br>Original contributions are sought, regarding the development of theory, techniques, and use cases of Artificial <br>
<br>Intelligence and / or process management in the area of healthcare, particularly connected to patient data, clinical <br><br>guidelines and healthcare processes.<br><br>Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers <br>
<br>should clearly establish their research contribution and the relation to the goals of the workshop. The scope of the <br><br>workshop includes, but is not limited to the following areas:<br><br>· Process modeling in healthcare<br>
<br>· Computer-interpretable clinical guidelines / protocols and decision support<br><br>· Workflow management in healthcare<br><br>· Semantic integration of healthcare processes with electronic medical records<br>
<br>· Knowledge representation and ontologies for healthcare processes<br><br>· Temporal knowledge representations and exploitation<br><br>· Facilitating knowledge-acquisition of healthcare processes<br>
<br>· Visualization, monitoring and mining healthcare processes<br><br>· Knowledge extraction from healthcare databases and EPRs<br><br>· Knowledge combination, personalization and adaptation of healthcare processes<br>
<br>· Compliance of healthcare processes<br><br>· Evaluation of quality and safety of careflow systems<br><br>· Managing flexibility and exceptions in healthcare processes<br><br>· Process optimization and simulation in healthcare organizations and healthcare networks<br>
<br>· Experiences in deploying knowledge-based tools in healthcare<br><br>· Patient empowerment in healthcare<br><br>· Linking clinical care and clinical research<br><br>· Lifecycle management for healthcare processes<br>
<br>· Context-aware healthcare processes<br><br>· Ambient intelligence & smart processes in healthcare<br><br>· Mobile process support in healthcare<br><br>· Process interoperability & standards in healthcare<br>
<br>· Process-oriented system architectures in healthcare<br><br> <br><br>FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP<br>----------------------<br><br>The 1-day workshop will comprise accepted long and short papers, tool presentations, and 1-2 keynotes. Papers should be <br>
<br>submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. An informal proceedings will <br><br>be available during the workshop. At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present <br>
<br>the paper. The selected best long (full) papers will be included in the formal proceedings, which will be published as part <br><br>of the LNAI Springer series.<br><br><br>REGISTRATION<br>----------------<br><br>Registration Participants can register to the workflow only or to the workshop in combination with the BPM conference at a <br>
<br>reduced price. Registration information can be found at <a href="http://bpm2012.ut.ee/registration/">http://bpm2012.ut.ee/registration/</a> <br><br> <br>PAPER SUBMISSION<br>----------------<br><br>
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English <br><br>will be accepted. Three types of submissions are possible: (1) full papers (12 pages long) reporting mature research <br>
<br>results, (2) position papers reporting research that may be in preliminary stage not yet been evaluated, and (3) tool <br><br>reports. Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers must present original research <br>
<br>contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.<br><br>Papers should be submitted in the LNCS format. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the <br><br>topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper, <br>
<br>position paper, or tool report).<br><br> <br><br>Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the Easychair system <br><br>(<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prohealth12kr4hc12" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prohealth12kr4hc12</a>)<br>
<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>---------------<br><br>Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 4 June 2012<br><br>Notification of Acceptance: 2 July 2012<br><br>Camera-ready version: 30 July 2012<br><br>ProHealth/KR4HC Workshop: 3 September 2012<br>
<br> <br><br>KEYNOTE TALK<br>------------<br><br>A Keynote talk will be given by Prof. Yuval Shahar form Ben-Gurion University, Israel.<br><br> <br><br>WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS<br>------------------<br><br>Richard Lenz, University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany<br>
<br>Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br><br>Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Israel<br><br>Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany<br><br>David Riaסo, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain<br>
<br>Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br><br><br>CONTACT PERSON<br>--------------<br><br>Mor Peleg<br>Department of Information Systems<br>Rabin Bldg., room 7049<br>Faculty of Social Sciences<br>
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 31905<br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank">morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il</a><br>Tel: <a href="tel:%2B972-4-824-9641" value="+97248249641" target="_blank">+972-4-824-9641</a><br>
<br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>-----------------<br><br>Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada<br>
Roberta Annicchiarico, Santa Lucia Hospital, Italy<br>Luca Anselma, Universitא di Torino, Italy<br>Joseph Barjis, TU Delft, The Netherlands<br>Oliver Bott, University of Applied Sciences and Art, Hanover, Germany<br>Fabio Campana, CAD RMB, taly<br>
Adela Grando, UCSD, USA<br>Robert Greenes, Harvard University, USA<br>Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, University of Western Ontario, Canada<br>Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>David Isern, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain<br>
Stefan Jablonski, Universitהt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany<br>Katharina Kaiser, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br>Patty Kostkova, City University London, UK<br>Vassilis Koutkias, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece <br>
Peter Lucas, University Nijmegen, The Netherlands<br>Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada<br>Ronny Mans, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands<br>Mar Marcos, Universitat Jaume I, Spain<br>Stefani Montani, Universitא del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy<br>
Bela Mutschler, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany<br>Oystein Nytro, Norwegian University of Science and Tehcnology,Norway<br>Leon Osterweil, University. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA<br>Silvana Quaglini, University of Pavia, Italy<br>
Hajo Reijers, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands<br>Kitty Rosenbrand, CBO, The Netherlands<br>Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia<br>Danielle Sent, Utrecht University, The Netherlands<br>
Brigitte Seroussi, STIM, DPA/DSI/AP-HP, France<br>Andreas Seyfang, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br>Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University, Israel<br>Ton Spil, University of Twente,The Netherlands<br>Maria Taboada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain<br>
Paolo Terenziani, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Italy<br>Lucineia Thom, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil<br>Samson Tu, Stanford University, USA<br>Dongwen Wang, University of Rochester, USA<br>
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Mor Peleg<br>Assoc. Prof. of Information Systems<br>Head, Department of Information Systems<br>
University of Haifa, 31905, Israel<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank">morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il</a><br>URL: <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/" target="_blank">http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/</a><br>Phone: 972-4-824-9641<br>
Fax: 972-4-828-8522 </div></font></span></div></div>